How to Ride Walk Pirouettes
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Ready to start teaching your horse walk pirouettes? The walk pirouette or turn on the haunches is a great exercise to work on shoulder mobility and coordination with your horse. Practicing your walk pirouettes is also essential to getting a good canter pirouette at higher levels.
In this video, I will be going over:
· What is the walk pirouette?
· What is a good exercise to begin working on the walk pirouette?
· What makes a good walk pirouette?
· What does it mean when your horse “sticks” the walk pirouette?
Watch the video where I’m working with my young horse on the walk pirouette and talk about what you should be looking for in a good pirouette.
Let me know how this goes with your horse in the comments below!
Happy Riding!
Amelia
I think it is important to note that the inside hind does not exactly cross over the outside hind. The outside front does cross over in front of the inside front (the front of the horse has the longer distance to travel), as in a half pass. Unlike the half pass, the outside hind steps under the horse's body and in front of the inside hind without crossing over and going past that point, and of course staying in a walk cadence (very short travel distance of hind end of the horse). Should the outside hind step completely cross over past the inside hind, it will increase the distance traveled by the back end of the horse and make the movement go too laterally, impeding the front of the horse from moving in the desired direction of travel ( will end up too large and too lateral.
There is a great very old exercise using a square but putting the horse on the rein in the direction of the outside of the square. Your corners would then be 3/4 pirrouets to continue back onto the square. [ example: walking a 15m square in the L direction on the R rein with each 3/4 pirrouet on a corner to the right, landing back on the line of the square ]. A plethora of advantages and positive training experiences are available with this variation.
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Great video. Love your chestnut horse. Can you tell me what model saddle that is?
Hi Brenda! I ride in and N2 saddle. This is the vincitore that I have on him.
Can you explain the aids you’re using? Like inside leg etc?
You keep the walk rhythm with your seat, the horse is bent off the inside leg to the outside rein, then you use the outside leg and rein to push the shoulders around. Inside rein keeps the flexion to the inside, inside leg keeps the bend, outside rein also prevents too much forward traveling (instead of around), outside leg also keeps the hindquarters from swinging out. There is a lot going on! Perhaps I should make an updated video :)
yes please . This is so difficult to learn when I’m not sure the timing of my aids.@@AmeliaNewcombDressage
Are trot pirouettes possible?
At the Piaffe they are!